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More than four decades after its founding, the Journal of Modern Literature remains a leading scholarly journal in the field of modern and contemporary literature and is widely recognized as such. It emphasizes scholarly studies of literature in all languages, as well as related arts and cultural artifacts, from 1900 to the present. International in its scope, its contributors include scholars from Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, Oceana, and South America.

Monday, March 23, 2020

Logics of the Living: JML 43.2 is now live!



JML 43.2 (Winter 2020), on the theme Logics of the Living, is now live on JSTOR at https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/jmodelite.43.issue-2 and on Project Muse at https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/42104

Content includes:

Rached Khalifa
“The Echo-Harbouring Shell”: Of Shells and Selves in Paul Valéry and W.B. Yeats

Paola Villa
Mollusk-Writers: Spacetime Revolutions in a Literary Shell

Lauren Benjamin
Circe’s Feral Beasts: Women and Other Animals in Joyce’s Ulysses 

Peter Balbert
From Relativity to Paraphrenia in D. H. Lawrence’s “The Man Who Loved Islands”:
Speculations on Einstein, Freud, Gossamer Webs, and Seagulls

Graham Fraser
Solid Objects/Ghosts of Chairs: Virginia Woolf and the Afterlife of Things

Rachel Pomery
Ritual, Place, and Pilgrimage: A Topological Approach to David Jones’s The Anathémata

Nathaniel Otjen
Energy Anxiety and Fossil Fuel Modernity in H.G. Wells’s The War of the Worlds

Melanie Nicholson
Necessary and Unnecessary Monsters: Jorge Luis Borges’s Book of Imaginary Beings 

Elin Käck
“Horrible Washing Sawing”: Ecology and Anthropocentric Sublimity in Jack Kerouac’s Big Sur

Magdalena Mączyńska
Welcome to the Post-Anthropolis: Urban Space and Climate Change in Nathaniel Rich’s Odds Against Tomorrow, Lev Rosen’s Depth, and Kim Stanley Robinson’s New York 2140

Miguel Caballero
A Matter of Scale: Race and the Skyscraper

Rebecah Pulsifer
Adding Mathematics to Modernist Studies

Henry N. Gifford
Mathematical Transfinites and Modernism: Literary Infinities: Number and Narrative in Modern Fiction 

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